The sectors of agriculture, education and roads are slated to reap big in the 2024/2025 national budget.
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee for Budget and Appropriation Ndindi Nyoro has noted in the Sh4.188 trillion budget, more funds were factored to facilitate provision of various subsidies in the agricultural sector.
On Monday, the Kiharu MP said that the coffee advance cherry fund would get an additional of Sh2 billion to cushion farmers from fluctuation of local and international prices.
‘We want coffee farmers not to earn less than Sh80 per kilo of coffee. Money is factored to increase the advance cherry fund from Sh4 billion to Sh6 billion. The dairy sector will also get money to ensure farmers will not get a litre of milk at less than Sh50,’ said Ndindi during a public participation on road construction in Murang’a town, Monday.
Ndindi underscored the largest budget the country has ever had saying it’s targeting to improve socio-economic status of Kenyans and especially those who have vent
ured in businesses, manufacturing and agricultural sectors.
‘Still in agriculture, the government aims to lower funds used to import edible oils. The country spends more than Sh150 billion annually to import edible oil but in the next financial year budget, money is allocated to promote farming of crops like sunflower that facilitate manufacturing of edible oils,’ remarked the legislator.
Ndindi said through import substitution, seeds of the crops used to manufacture edible oils would be procured and distributed to farmers so as to have yields which would lower dependence on importation of edible oils.
On roads, the MP said Sh220 billion is allocated for development of roads across the country.
‘Sh70 billion of the amount proposed for roads will be provided by the government and the remaining sum will be sourced from development partners. The allocated figure also includes recurrent expenditure that is maintenance of continuous maintenance of the roads,’ he asserted.
Ndindi further observed that the educ
ation sector is allocated Sh670 billion part of which would be used to employ teachers.
‘Sh26.6 billion from the amount allocated for education will be used by the Teachers Service Commission to absorb the 20, 000 intern teachers into permanent basis. Another more than Sh30 billion will be used to employ 20, 000 additional teachers,’ said Ndindi.
The education sector, the MP noted, needs more funding to implement various reforms including ongoing implementation of competency based curriculum.
Source: Kenya News Agency
President Kais Saied made an unannounced visit to the train and metro depots of Jebel Jeloud and Tunis Marine on Tuesday to inspect the state of transport and maintenance conditions.
According to a statement from the presidency, the head of state “stressed the need to put an end to the dilapidation and corruption of these essential public facilities”.
He was quoted as saying in the statement that “most of the vehicles are neglected and have turned into a pile of rusted iron that is no longer usable, while citizens struggle to move around”.
Saied cited several examples of corruption in the transport sector for decades, including the metro, which was built after the national community lost thousands of billions and then dumped on Jean Jaures Street and Louis Braille et Street in Tunis as a result of the intervention of those in power at the time, in addition to the purchase of metro cars whose doors open below the level of the pavement inside the stations, or the purchase of cars whose wheels do not meet rai
lway standards.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse